The Secret Of Sufism Is That It

Trying To Force Something Is The Best Way To Stop It Happening.

The Sufi Is One Who Does Not Care When Something Is Taken From Him, But Who Does Not Cease To Seek For What He Has Not.

A King Who Feared Wasps Once Decreed That They Were Abolished. As It Happened, They Did Him No Harm. But He Was Eventually Stung To Death By Scorpions.

The Main Problem Is That Most Commentators Are Accustomed To Thinking Of Spiritual Schools As 'systems', Which Are More Or Less Alike, And Which Depend Upon Dogma And Ritual: And Especially Upon Repetition And The Application Of Continual And Standardised Pressures Upon Their Followers.the Sufi Way, Except In Degenerate Forms Which Are Not To Be Classified As Sufic, Is Entirely Different From This.

It Is Not Important To Have Said A Thing First, Or Best - Or Even Most Interestingly. What Is Important Is To Say It On The Right Occasion.